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Asked by the BBC’s Political Editor about the Sunday Telegraph story and the ITV denial from No10 and what was it Downing Street was denying, the PMOS said that the journalist had to put to him what it was that he wanted the PMOS to deny.

The journalist said that Downing Street had appeared to deny handwritten notes by the Prime Minister in relation to honours. The PMOS asked who had said that there were and what were they about.

The journalist said he had. The PMOS said that what we had responded to were specific allegations put to us by ITN and the Sunday Telegraph. The PMOS went on to say that if people had a further specific allegation, then they had to tell him what it was and who had made it.

The journalist continued that the Sunday Telegraph had made an allegation that there were written notes by the Prime Minister in relation to honours. The PMOS said that it was for him to respond to the Sunday Telegraph, and if people had a specific allegation, they had to make it, and tell him who the source was.

Channel Four’s Political Editor said that he had picked up from the PMOS an "angry" tone, and did we feel that the police were putting things into the public domain without reporting directly to Downing Street, the PMOS asked the journalist if he was really telling him that police involved in an ongoing investigation were leaking details to the press, because if he was, it was a very serious allegation.

Asked if that could be the only way in which some of the information could have got into the public domain, the PMOS said "you tell me". We believed that any conversations between the parties involved should be private.

Put that we had "rubbished" any idea of alternative computer networks, but the Mail on Saturday and "Guido Fawkes" website had both claimed that they had evidence of alternative email networks in No10 that linked up to the Labour Party, the PMOS said that we stood by what we said to ITN. There was only one email system at No10.

Asked if it would be possible for someone to "hop on" using a No10 computer onto the Labour Party network, the PMOS said again that there was only one email system at No10.

Asked further questions about the possibility of an external server, or the possibilities of sending Labour Party emails, and did only one system allow for more than one email address, the PMOS repeated that there was only one email system in No10. As the PMOS said on Friday, people in No10 could not access hotmail, gmail etc because of security reasons, and he was not aware of anyone who had more than one email address.

Asked if people could send political emails from the No10 account, the PMOS replied that he was not going to get into the details of the system. The claim that was put to us was that there was more than one system, and there is not. There is only one, and the police have had access to everything that went through the system.

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"There is only one email system in No. 10".
"There are WMD in Iraq".

I think that’s all that really needs to be said on the subject. Is there is a single person left in this country that actually believes a single word this government, or any other, and/or its talking heads and spokespeople says? Personally I don’t know any, I’d be curious if anyone else does. This particular subject is laughable in the extreme – we all KNOW the government and its spokespeople are lying bastards to a man/woman, we all KNOW Tony Bliar was selling peerages, we all KNOW the situation will continue, and we all KNOW that ultimately if the police find anything at all it will be a lowly scapegoat that takes the rap. Why don’t we just completely do away with these lobby briefings – because we all KNOW that every single word politicians ever say, amen, is a lie. It’s very simple. You can tell they are lying – because they speak…
Comment by SmokeNMirrors — 30 Jan 2007 on 12:10 pm | Link
"There is only one email system in No. 10".
"There are WMD in Iraq".

I think that’s all that really needs to be said on the subject. Is there is a single person left in this country that actually believes a single word this government, or any other, and/or its talking heads and spokespeople says? Personally I don’t know any, I’d be curious if anyone else does. This particular subject is laughable in the extreme – we all KNOW the government and its spokespeople are lying bastards to a man/woman, we all KNOW Tony Bliar was selling peerages, we all KNOW the situation will continue, and we all KNOW that ultimately if the police find anything at all it will be a lowly scapegoat that takes the rap. Why don’t we just completely do away with these lobby briefings – because we all KNOW that every single word politicians ever say, amen, is a lie. It’s very simple. You can tell they are lying – because they speak…
Comment by SmokeNMirrors — 30 Jan 2007 on 12:11 pm | Link

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